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- [ Letter To a Prisoner ] [ By The GNN ]
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- LETTER TO A PRISONER
- by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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- Written for the one and only dominator: Dirtybush / Dual Crew-Shining.
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- "You don't have to change anything, just find a fall-guy..."
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- Crime does not pay, some say. But it must pay well sometimes, since so
- many people do steal. Some win and some lose, it is all a game in the end.
- Unfortunately, you lost one of your bets, otherwise you would not end up in
- the slammer. You are a free man now, however, and this is the letter I was
- supposed to send you. But I never did - I do not know why, I guess I never
- managed to finish it properly. It still feels incomplete, more ought to be
- said. But I will save those words for another rainy day.
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- Maybe you wonder why I never visited you in jail? The answer is simple,
- but yet true: who would like to see you behind bars? If I want to see
- something in a cage I go to a zoo. I have no need to see the result of
- primitive human thinking from the inside.
- Prisons are pretty nice nowadays, I figure. You are not forced to drink
- water and eat bread together with the rats. Still, that is no excuse. Prisons
- are, and will be, a fine symbol of society's failure. This failure is not
- a 'real' failure however. It is more a symbol of laziness. Society may be
- good at building prisons, because that is easy work. You just use some hard,
- grey concrete. Anyone could do that.
- Thinking, however, is not that easy. Society does not fancy theory. We
- improve the prisons with TV and gently ask the rats to move to another place.
- We never think about 'the need for prisons.' They are just there, ready to
- swallow the criminal person. We have not really advanced when it comes to
- rational thinking as we want to believe. When we were monkeys, I guess we
- hit the monkey that stole from us. Now, we do the same thing, but with more
- style. But the essence is still the same: We are just monkeys, hitting the
- thief-monkey with the nearest branch.
- The common question to conclusions like the above one is, naturally,
- 'Hey, if you are so smart, perhaps you could tell us what we ought to do
- instead? If we are not supposed to throw criminals into prison, what are
- we going to do then?'
- Let me put it this way; I do not care. I am not a politician, I am a
- realist. The construction of the future is not my thing. I develop my
- personal dignity by understanding things. Those who ask a question like
- the above are not even trying to understand. They just want things
- to be like it has always been, because that is the easiest way. No one
- is forced to think and understand if things remain status quo.
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- Let us change the topic a little bit: I know (and you know for sure)
- that you actually were guilty to some of the crimes in question, no arguments
- about that. You did not spend your time in jail 'without reason,' as some
- people do. However, the word 'were' is incorrect; According to the legal
- system you ARE guilty. Or more precise; you are STILL guilty. There is no
- such thing as 'paying your debt to society'. Once a thief, always a
- thief. I know you have noticed that irritating phenomena.
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- But if we look at the concept 'guilty' a bit closer, we will notice that
- you were guilty 'according to the legal system', not according to some divine
- moral system, or equal. That is an important detail.
- You were guilty because The Rule Book we play with in the global society
- said so. When we play a game of chess, we know that the game is over when
- the King is mate. We accept these rules when we play chess. This is because
- we, roughly speaking, sign a contract to follow these rules every time we
- play chess. But when did we sign the contract that said that we must follow
- the rules of society? The day someone steps up to me and shows my signature
- on a contract that bounds me the follow the legal system - then I will
- accept the rules. But now, since there is no such contract with my
- signature, I see no reason why I should just accept that other people might
- put me in jail.
- I play a game, but I cannot recall that I have ever chosen to play this
- particular game we call 'The Legal System'.
- People will oppose to this idea. If people had to sign a contract, this
- world would turn into anarchy, they claim. Why? Not because NO ONE would
- sign it, that would be most improbable. No, because SOME people would not
- sign it. And what would we do with those that did not sign it? Well, I say,
- who cares? What would we do if there were too many people on this planet?
- Kill a couple of them, because they 'were not good for the society'? That
- would be a violation of humanity, because individuals have a 'natural'
- right to life. But why do we not have the 'natural' right to do whatever
- we want to? There sure is nothing 'natural' in being forced to follow the
- global Rule Book.
- Just because a phenomena is global, it does not by necessity have to
- be good nor true. Several billions believe in 'god'. Does that mean that
- 'god' exists? Not necessarily. Several billions follow the global rule
- book, the legal system. Does that mean that it is good? Perhaps. But
- are we forced to follow it? Yes, some say. And I once again ask: where on
- earth is that contract I signed when I accepted that?
- It's a shame that people do not try to answer that question. But it is
- an even greater shame that people do not even ASK the question.
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- I am worried about one thing: Now, when you are free, will you stop
- thinking for yourself? Jail is a dangerous place, because it scares the
- shit out of most people. No one wants to end up there, and no one wants
- to go back after a little vacation behind bars. This feeling can turn
- people into walking zombies who oppress their personal beliefs because
- they do not dare to challenge the society.
- Their line of thinking is like this - 'I WANT to do this, but I will
- not do it, because other people might throw me in Jail'. In equal, they
- never do what they want. They do not say what they want to say, they do
- not criticize things they find to be wrong - because other people might
- find their opinions wrong and dangerous. That is not healthy.
- But, if I know you right, I should not worry. You will never play by
- other peoples rules, you will not accept them without signing the contract.
- We have our own rules and we gladly follow them. If people dislike
- that, never mind. Those people who turned you in will some day be aware of
- how our rules work. They will be forced to play our game. When that happens,
- THEY will ask for the contract with their signature - the contract that
- bounds THEM to follow OUR rules. But there will be no such contract, as
- there no contract that bounds us to their rules.
- There will be a conflict. In that conflict, certain people will notice
- that our rules can hurt too.
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- I leave you with a quote: "The construction of the future and the
- completeness for all times is not our task. What we at present have to do
- is the reckless critique of all the existing - reckless in the sense that
- the critique is not afraid of its results and likewise not afraid of
- conflicts with the existing powers." (P.M. Bergman)
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- (Note: Contrary to popular belief, the views in this file are neither
- left- nor right-winged. But unfortunately, some people love labels -
- and I love to disappoint them.)
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